Life quotes

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.

Not all those who wander are lost.

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you.

They may forget what you said — but they will never forget how you made them feel.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet.

You only live once, but if you work it right, once is enough.

Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

We do not remember days, we remember moments.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Get busy living or get busy dying.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.

Everything in life is luck.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.

Life is a long lesson in humility.

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

The best way out is always through.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.

Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet.

I exist as I am, that is enough.

Everyone thinks of changing humanity, and no one thinks of changing himself.

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

The unexamined life is not worth living, but the unlived life is not worth examining.

Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.